Equality

[oggbashan]

I was going through my father's papers today and I found an essay he wrote in 1927/8 (date from internal evidence).

He was advocating equal pay for equal work for men and women and even higher pay for women in roles where they were more productive.

He also wanted tax breaks for families including one parent families (of which there were a lot in 1928 because of deaths of men in WW1).

At the time he was 20 or 21.

When he wrote his will in the 1990s he split the estate slightly unequally because one son (me) had only daughters and therefore "no one to carry on the family name".

I prefer the 1920s version of my father.

Og

 

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[Icingsugar]

Radical in spring, conservative in autumn. Sounds like a common human condition. I've seen it in a handful of my own family too.

With age comes hopefully wisdom, but sometimes other things too.

Let us all stay young at heart til it stops beating.

 

[Why]

Ogg: It happens the other way as well, A great Maiden Aunt of my SO split her money thus... Male great nephews £500 each... The bulk divided equally between the two female nieces.

She also donated her body to medical science. That was one of the strangest things I had to do... arrange for the collection of said body, then five years later the burial of said remains......

 

[Jenny _S]

Ogg: It happens the other way as well, A great Maiden Aunt of my SO split her money thus... Male great nephews £500 each... The bulk divided equally between the two female nieces.

She also donated her body to medical science. That was one of the strangest things I had to do... arrange for the collection of said body, then five years later the burial of said remains......

My great grandfather, who made millions in the lumber business in Washington State, pulled the ultimate equality gig. When my grandfather, who was the youngest of 6 brothers, turned 16 he lined all 6 up in the parlor one Sunday, stuck $100 is each of their hands and threw them all out saying, "I made mine. Now you go make yours." That was 1913.

When the old man died in 1926, his entire estate was willed to the City of Spokane, Washington with the provision it be used to found a public school system.

Most members of the family firmly believe he was insane.